In this activity, young scholars work in small groups to construct a tower that will support a book using everyday materials. The goal is to develop persistence in continuing with a task even when experiencing some failures. This is modeled using a video of a baby going through the stages of learning how to walk.

Concepts

perseverance

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Additional Tags

building a tower, engineering challenge, engineering design project, persistence, engineering design process projects

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional

Common Core

SL.K.2 SL.K.5 L.K.6 SL.1.5 SL.2.2